Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-02
Scraps and fatts.

- Inc Senate OF Texas has passed the pro-
|hibitory amendment to the constitution,
which will be submitted to the people for
ratification at the general election to be
held for that purpose on the first Thursday
1of August next.
II It Is said that st. Louis has the politest
lawyer In the country. A long and terrific
POLL Of thunder having stopped him in the
|midst Of an address to thejury, on resuming
he bowed and eourteously said: "Gentle-
men, please excuse this interruption"
All the Ice that is used in Mexico comes
from the top Of Popocatapel; it is brought
down the mountain on the backs of the
natives, and then sixty miles on the cars to
the city, where it is sold at wholesale for
ten cents apound. ~"
The value of the cotton plant, great as
It Is acknowledged by all to be, seems to
have the possibility of being increased, since
It has lately been discovered that the bark
bf the root contains what promises to be an
available coloring matter. ~
DR.. Hainswald, the African traveller,
bays that in Zululand he met the savage
who killed the French Prince Imperial, and
bold him that ifshe had only taken the
young man prisoner he might have got a
large ransom, whereupon the Zulu Wept
with regret and grief.
- The New York World, using the life
Insurance tables as 8 basis of calculation, has
6gured out that the late dependent pension
bill, ifpassed, would have required $l5, ,840,-
boo per year, or total of $253, ,584 900 to
have met the claims of the pensioners from
New York State alone. During the war
i67, 900 men from New York were on duty,
knd 421 900 survived.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Eriday says: !:
twenty-five Mormon elders are in Chatta-
hoopa and will start for various parts to en-
kage in their proselyting work. There are
how more than one hundred missionaries
In the South. Elder John Morgan, in
charge of the Southern headquarters, says
That there is greater demand for elders
Than can be supplied. The semi-annual de-
barture of converts takes place in March
Ind many hundreds will leave their homes.
1aeunno Caulker, a full-blooded African,
Khb is q prince in his own country, Sherbio,
cbuntryneaf Sierra Leone, sailed for home
rom New York Tuesday last with wife
bf his own color, native of Dayton, Ohio.
Gaulker was sent over to this country six
years ago by board of missions to be edu-
kated in the Christian faith. During his ab-
tence his people have been ruled over by
bis uncle, his father, the king, having died:
He has learned the printing trade, and will
publish q paper in his native tongue when
he gets back home.
The House of Representatives of Ten.
hessee, on Friday, by a party vote, passed
he bill to increase the pension OF soldiers
bf Tennessee who lost the use of both eyes
br both legs or both arms in the late war,
from SO to $25 per month. The bill pro-
Rides that the pension shall be allowed to
Confederate soldiers and to Federal soldiers
hot pens;oned by the United States Gov
ernment. Objection was made to the meas
lre by the Republicans on the ground that
6 recognized rebellion, and was, therefore,
Unconstitutional. The bill passed by vote
bf 81 to "a.
- The report of the director of the mint
Elbows marked increase in the production
bf the precious metals for the year 1886 over
hat Of 1885. The gold output increased
rom $31 300, 900 to $35, ,000, 900 and the silver
production from S4S, 100000 to S49, 1895 $3.50.
The total output of the two metals is $780,
boo, 600, or more than five millions greater
han the production of any former year in
he history of the country. The gratifying
Increase in the gold product is due chiefly
10 improved methods of mining in Califor-
hia and to the development of the newly
discovered gold fields in Alaska. 81
The trial of II. Dodson, of Augusta, KY,
charged with being vagrant, came Oft last
week before Judge George l.. Bradford and
jury. The jury, after hearing an the evl-
1ered him sold to the highest bidder at
bublic auction for period of seventy-tive
iays. Judge Bradford has fixed March 5th
bs the day of sale. This is the first case of
he kind that has occurred in that part OF
Kentucky for great many years. and much
interest was manifested. The proof showed
Oodson to be worthless, insolent vaga-
bond, who lived in state of filth and mis-
bry. He was very cruel to his family.
= The Vermont Railroad sComnissi toner's
nave completed their investigation of the
recent terrible accident on the Central Yer
mont Railroad, by which thirty lives were
Ost, and in their report say that up to the
lime the accident occurred the train was
tun with due and proper care. The de-
tailment and its attendant horrors were due
primarily to the breaking of rail, and
hen to the giving way of the central jour-
hal on the forward trucks of the sleeper
sPilgrim,n the latter mishap being due
doubtless to violent collision with the
broken rail. The Board finds that the de-
(ect in the rail was of character that could
hot have been detected until the accident
occurred, and thus exonerates the company
md its employees from all blame on account
bf the accident. .
- A steamer which arrived at San Francis
% on Friday from Honolulu brings full par
iculars of the great lava flow from Mauna
,oa. The sight is described as magnificent
beyond description. The column Of fire was
irst observed from the summit of the crater
bn the night of January l6. The fire died
iown before midnight, but great volcanic
disturbances continued up to the night of
I3he 18th, when fire and lava again burst
orth from the mountain side. The length
II the flow is estimated at twenty miles.
This distance the lava accomplished in two
lays, spreading as it descended, reaching
he sea on the evening of January 20. The
tream of lava continued to flow without
Interruption until the 10Th, when river of
ire burst forth, following the line of lava
low. When the fires famed out the heavy
EARTHQUAKES ceased, although slight tremors
we're felt at intervals thereafter.
The weather in the North and North
vest continues unprecedentedly severe. A
ispatch of Friday from st. Johnsbury,
Vermont, says: The blockade on the rail-
Dads in this section is the worst this season.
a hard wind has prevailed all night: The
nail train West on the Boston and Lowell
Road reached here at 9 o'clock last night,
nd is still here, waiting for the road to be
leared. It is said there is fifteen miles OF
Dad West of here upon which the snow is
rom five to twenty feet deep. The high
kays of the hills are nearly impossible. A
Washington dispatch of the same date says:
Another blizzard is blowing in Dakota, and
Northern Pacific passenger trains are snow
d in near Sentinel Butte. Still another
Wizard is reported from Northern New
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